Light Front Dynamics of Few Particle Systems (Physics)

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The light cone formalism of relativistic quantum mechanics will be extended and used to develop and analyse a model for the deuteron and a model for the pion nucleon system. A two particle angular momentum operator which contains interactions and satisfies the Leutwyler-Stern angular condition will be developed. This guarantees a convariant form for the deuteron wave fuction, and the sensitivity of the electromagnetic form factors to the wave function will be explored.